Bottle-soaking machine.



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APPLIOATION FILED MAY 2. 1903.

N0 MODEL.

UNITED ST TE fatented August 25, 1903.

PATENT OFFICE. f

THOMAS J. BARRY, ALFRED WEHMILLER, AND JOSEPH wsn wsomor ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI.

BJOTTLE- -SOAKING MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N 737,195, dated August 2 5, 1903.

I Application filed May 2, 1903 Serial No. 155,431. (No model.) i

To all whom it may concern.-

, Be it known that we, THOMAS J BARRY, AL- FRED WEHMILLER, and JOSEPH W. DAWSON, citizensof the United States, residing in the city of St. Louis, in the State of Missouri, have invented certain, new and useful Improvements in Bottle-Soaking Machines, of which the following is a full, clear,and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification.

Our invention relates to a means for holding the bottles in the baskets or receptacles as they are carried through the machine, the

object of our invention being to dispense with the stationary guards heretofore commonly used for such purpose.

Our invention consists in features of novelty hereinafter fully described, and pointed out in the claims.

Figure I is a side view, part in section, illustrating our invention. Fig. 11 is an enlarged detailed perspective View. Figs. III and IV are enlarged detail sections of the carrier and bottle retaining-guard; Fig. V is a detail front view illustrating the positionvof the guards when in position for holding" the bottles in their pockets. Fig. VI is a detail front view showing the position of the guards when shifted to release the bottles.

Referring to the drawings,1 represents a water-tank in which the bottles are soaked and through which the bottles are conveyed by means of an endless carrier consistingof a pair of chains 2 and a set of baskets or re ceptacles 3, connecting the chains together. The chains pass over sprocket wheels 4, and the baskets are preferably divided into compartments, (see Fig. 111,) each compartment being of the proper size to hold one bottle.

' machine the receptacles are 'at'times turned and effective means for As the bottles are "carried through the sists in providing each "basket or receptacle with a sliding bar 5,, held to its basket by means of keepers 6, which permit of its endwise movement. Each bar is provided with a series of fingers 7, so formed as to extend across the open ends of the bottle-receiving pockets, as shownin Fig. II. There is a finger for each pocket and the large ends or bottoms of the bottles rest against these fingers when the baskets are turnedwith their large ends lowermost, as shown in Fig. IV. Each basket thus carries .its'own bottle-retaining guard-fingers and the device forms a cheap holding the bottles in their pockets. I

8 represents a rinsing-tank, into which the bottles are deposited afterthey have been soaked. Just as each basket reaches the rinsing-tank the outturned end 9 of its bar 5 comes against a stationary cam 10, and the bar is shifted to move the fingers into line with the partitions of the basket and out of the path of thebottles, which now move by gravity fronrtheir pockets onto an inclined chute 11, that conveys them into the tank 8. The baskets arerefilled with fresh bottles at A, at which point the open or large ends of the bottle-receiving pockets are uppermost. As the baskets move from the point A the outturned ends of the bars 5 come against another cam 12, and the bars are moved back for pasteurizing beer and for other likepurposes, such as the sterilization of liquids of any kind.

bottle in its pocket, substantially as se t forth.

2. In a machine of the class described, the combination of a tank, an endless carrier hav= ing baskets with bottle-receiving pockets, a sliding guard carried by each basket,and cams for moving the guards, substantially as set barcarried by each basket and havingafinger forth. for each bottle-receiving pocket and station- In a machine of the class described, the ary cams adapted to be engaged by the out- I combination of a tanlgacarrierhavin gbaskets turned ends of said baI s, substantially as and 5 with bottle-receiving pockets, a sliding bar for the purpose set forth.

carried by each basket, uard-fin 'ers secured T to the bar and which ektend in Iront of the bottle-receiving pockets, and means for shift- T 7 DA\V(J)N ing the bars, substantially as set forth.

IO 4. In a machine of the class described, the In presence of combination of a tank, an endless carrierhav- E. S. KNIGHT, ing' baskets With bottle-receiving pockets, a NELLIE V. ALEXANDER. 

